Opinion in brief: Obama gets the bird

First, President Obama gets dissed by a Princeton economics professor, then by Big Bird. Prof. Harvey Rosen says an Obama campaign ad misrepresented his research in an ad attacking Mitt Romney’s tax reform plan. Then Big Bird’s Seasame Street business empire demanded that the Obama backers cease and desist using the feathered celebrity’s image in anti-Romney ads. Since Sesame Street is a multimillion-dollar merchandising colossus headed by a CEO with an annual salary of over $1 million, you’d think that the Bird, were he to make an endorsement, would opt for the predator plutocrat, Romney. But Sesame Street, even though it’s plugged into the federally funded crony capitalism network via taxpayer-subsidized PBS, insists it’s staying strictly neutral. — The Trentonian